Release of 1.00.0

Major new release

Here it is:
The much awaited version 1.00.0 of JSXGraph has been released!
After 12 years of development we think JSXGraph is more than ready to
leave with version 1.00.0 the unofficial beta-status.

We heartfully thank all the developers out there who use JSXGraph since many years
to produce mathematical visualizations for countless e-learning environments
from primary school to university level.

Also, we want to invite you to the
1. JSXGraph conference on 8.-9. October 2020 at the University of Bayreuth,
Germany. We want to bring together JSXGraph users, developers and content developers to exchange ideas and learn from
each other.

New in v1.00.0

The last release was version 0.99.7 in May 2018, a big pile of improvements has been incorporated since then.
In this post, we want to give just a short overview of the changes and improvements since version 0.99.7.
In the following days, we will publish a series of posts where the new possibilities are explained
together with examples.

Compatibility

To the best of our knowledege, version 1.00.0 contains only one change which might request action from content developers:
JessieCode parse errors are now handed over to the application and can/must be catched by try {} catch (e) {}. Before,
just a console.log() message was written by JessieCode.

The good news are that Safari and wkwebview on iOS 13+ switched to pointer events. That is, all major browsers now use pointer event.

Since Safari 12, board.renderer.screenshot() also supports texts in Safari and therefore behaves similar as in Chrome and Firefox.

New Features and Improvements

Polygon / curve clipping and boolean operation on curves are now enabled.
This allows intersection, union or difference of curves, polygones or circles, see
API docs.

New math functions: cot, acot, nthroot, cbrt, binomial. Available e.g. as JXG.Math.cot.
nthroot(a, n) returns the n-th real root of a, where n is an integer. cbrt is the cubic root.

JXG.Math.pow: is now able to compute x^(1/n) for x<0 and $n$ an odd integer.